Bongosso Explained

Bongosso
Settlement Type:Village
Pushpin Map:Mali
Pushpin Label Position:bottom
Pushpin Mapsize:300
Pushpin Map Caption:Location in Mali
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name: Mali
Subdivision Type1:Region
Subdivision Name1:Sikasso Region
Subdivision Type2:Cercle
Subdivision Name2:Koutiala Cercle
Subdivision Type3:Commune
Subdivision Name3:Koromo
Population As Of:1998
Population Blank1 Title:Ethnicities
Utc Offset:+0
Coordinates:12.6717°N -5.1931°W
Elevation M:306

Bongosso (or Bougounso) is a village and seat (chef-lieu) of the commune of Koromo in the Cercle of Koutiala in the Sikasso Region of southern Mali.[1] The village is northeast of Koutiala.

French explorer René Caillié stopped at Bongosso in February 1828 on his journey to Timbuktu. He was travelling with a caravan transporting kola nuts to Djenné. He described the village in his book Travels through Central Africa to Timbuctoo published in 1830. He wrote:

About eleven in the morning we arrived at Bancousso [Bongosso], a large village containing a population of five or six hundred, and situated in a well cultivated plain, shaded by baobabs. This village has a large market, well supplied with the productions of the country; I saw in it a great quantity of cloth and earthen pots which are made here.

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